The title suggests a blocking of every annoying pop-up or ad in general. Now that’s a lot to live up to, especially when there’s easier way to minimise the amount of ads by using Browser Adblockers like uBlock, AdBlock Plus and so on. Pi-Hole lives up to it’s promise though and blocks ads seamlessly, but also provides a minimal installation and an easy-to-use web interface.
About Pi-Hole
Pi-Hole was founded by a couple of developers that to this day maintain and support the intuitive program. They are backed by a whole community of motivated and supportive moderators and contributors
It also possess the capability to block ads on websites that were stuck behind a paywall, (YouTube among others).
Installation
With all installations on a Linux machine, it would best to update the whole system, so that there’s no dependency issues that could make the whole installation more time-consuming than it is.
For that the handy command can be used
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Web Interface
The web interface that Pi-Hole is used upon and can be interacted with looks, in a finished configured state, like this
To get to this state you must first use the trusted command-line interface that can also be accessed by SSH. A short installation process on how to get your Pi up and running with SSH access can be found here.
(coming soon)
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